Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities

Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvCatherine Flinn

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Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dilemmas concerning reconstruction planning and implementation after 1945. How did politicians, civil servants and local authorities manage to produce the cities we live in today? Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities examines the underlying processes and pressures, especially financial and bureaucratic, which shaped postwar urbanism in Britain.Catherine Flinn integrates architectural planning with in-depth economic and political analyses of Britain's blitzed cities for the first time. She examines early reconstruction arrangements, the postwar economic apparatus and the challenges of postwar physical planning across the country, while providing insightful case studies from the cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool.By addressing the ideology versus the reality of reconstruction in postwar Britain, Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities highlights the importance of economic and political factors for understanding the British postwar built environment.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-27
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt549 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350067622

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List of AbbreviationsList of Persons & AffiliationsList of IllustrationsPreface: In Spite of Planning1. Introduction: Did the Planners “Cut the Heart Out of our Cities”? 2. Considering Reconstruction, 1940-19453. Treasury Mandarins: The Apparatus of Postwar Economic Planning4. Central Control?: The Challenges of Postwar Physical Planning 5. Local Constraints: The Cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool 6. Postwar Rebuilding: Hopeful Plans Become Different Realities 7. Rebuilding Blitzed City Centres Despite PlanningAppendicesBibliographyIndex